reef flat in a sentence
Examples
- A 2000 report noted large numbers of dead corals on the reef flats on the ocean side, apparently due to past discharges of sewerage.
- These different reefs provide diverse scuba diving opportunities that include walls, pinnacles and reef flats that are located throughout an enormous area of sea.
- Terre-de-Bas consists of three marine habitats made up of reef flats which house living or dead coral communities, submerged rock slabs, and some seagrass areas.
- In Thailand in 1995, in a reef flat dominated by " C . aspera ", there was a mass bleaching event caused by high water temperatures.
- The earliest seaweed farming guides in the Philippines recommended cultivation of " Laminaria " seaweed and reef flats at approximately one metre's depth at low tide.
- These are bound by continuous fringing reefs ( steep reef wall on the west and sloping reef at the east coast of Olango ) and reef flats.
- If a fringing reef grows directly from the shoreline ( see photo, right ) the reef flat extends right to the beach and there is no backreef.
- Nailatikau was succeeded by Banuve, who in the 30 years as Vunivalu, reclaimed wide areas of the adjacent reef flats and built up stone docks and sea walls.
- At Aldabra in the Indian Ocean, blacktip reef sharks congregate in the channels between reef flats during low tide and travel to the mangroves when the water rises.
- The Latticed Butterflyfish is an uncommon species found in areas of rich coral growth of lagoons and protected reef flats and seaward reefs from 1 20 m depth.